"Wh-what the hell, how did you find me?"
Transferred to an otherworldly dimension that resembled a paradise, Isshiki Otsutsuki, with Yin-Yang Release Black Rods inserted into every acupoint on his body, looked up at Izayoi before him, completely unable to comprehend how the other party had deciphered his Sukuna-Hikona + Space-Time Portal combination technique.
When returning to the real world, the Space-Time Portal couldn't be shrunk by Sukuna-Hikona, so being discovered was understandable.
However, upon entering the space-time tunnel, Isshiki Otsutsuki's size was even smaller than an ant, barely visible to the naked eye. Even his Chakra would shrink and become undetectable. Furthermore, there were countless dimensions within the space-time tunnel, and even a Kekkei Mōra-level ocular ability shouldn't be able to find him.
For the past two thousand years, Isshiki Otsutsuki had survived using this combination technique.
Logically, Izayoi shouldn't have been able to find him either.
How did this guy do it?
Little did he know, Izayoi only needed to glance at him to see his experiences for the next five minutes.
Unless Isshiki Otsutsuki continuously fled within these five minutes, as long as he entered any dimension, Izayoi would be able to track him down.
He could only blame himself for not being cautious enough!
Izayoi didn't answer Isshiki Otsutsuki's confusion; instead, he raised an eyebrow.
Immediately, Izayoi raised his hand and created two black spheres, then merged them into a larger sphere, which liquefied and engulfed Isshiki Otsutsuki, forming a black square box on the grass.
This was the combination of Chakra Orb + Ame-no-Numahoko.
At this moment, Isshiki Otsutsuki was both Jigen and Isshiki Otsutsuki.
Because Isshiki Otsutsuki only had half of his body remaining, he needed to parasitize within Jigen's body and absorb Jigen's bodily energy to survive.
With Jigen being parasitized, his brain was already controlled by Isshiki Otsutsuki. It was Isshiki Otsutsuki speaking through Jigen's voice and controlling his body to do what he wanted.
Furthermore, Isshiki Otsutsuki's Karma was also branded onto Jigen's body.
With just a thought, Isshiki Otsutsuki could activate the data on Jigen's body and fully reincarnate.
At that time, Jigen's physical appearance, and even his genes, would transform into those of Isshiki Otsutsuki and a pure-blooded Otsutsuki.
However, because Jigen's body was too weak and unsuitable to be his Reincarnation Vessel, once fully reincarnated, his lifespan would be nearly exhausted. This was why Isshiki Otsutsuki hadn't fully reincarnated and continued to parasitize Jigen's body.
Due to the parasitic nature, Isshiki Otsutsuki's main body could leave Jigen's body at any time and find a new target to parasitize.
The reason Izayoi used the Chakra Orb + Ame-no-Numahoko combination technique was because his eyes had just seen Isshiki Otsutsuki decide to abandon Jigen's body, secretly fly out of his ear, and then seize the opportunity to expend his remaining Chakra to cast the Daikokuten + Space-Time Portal combination technique to escape this dimension.
After finally catching this rat, how could Izayoi possibly give him this chance?
After trapping Isshiki Otsutsuki in the "little black room," Izayoi finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to cast Ame-no-Tokotachi, to observe the past of this superior being of the Rabbit Goddess.
Undoubtedly, it would be an epic saga.
However, the latter half of this epic saga appeared somewhat disheveled and tragic.
Because for the past two thousand years, Isshiki Otsutsuki had been like a rat, only daring to hide in countless dimensions, and he chose dimensions that were dim and devoid of light, dark places.
Only by using Sukuna-Hikona to shrink his body and Chakra, and blend into the darkness, could the Isshiki Otsutsuki, who was considered elegant and noble by the members of the Kara organization, feel a sense of security.
There was no other way!
As a superior existence among pure-blooded Otsutsuki, Isshiki Otsutsuki could never have imagined being betrayed by a subordinate. Being noble, he had never branded Karma onto lower beings and hadn't prepared a Reincarnation Vessel in advance.
His only Reincarnation Vessel was Jigen, whom he was parasitizing. If his main body died, or if Jigen died, then he would truly perish.
As a noble existence among long-lived species, Isshiki Otsutsuki feared death more than Earthlings.
To revive himself, he had endured humiliation for over two thousand years.
During these two thousand years, he was countless times more cautious than Izayoi, to the point where Izayoi felt sympathetic towards this superior of the Rabbit Goddess.
If not for his excessive arrogance and betrayal by his subordinate, Isshiki Otsutsuki might have awakened several more Divine Techniques in addition to Byakugan, Sukuna-Hikona, and Daikokuten, and even developed a more powerful Kekkei Mōra.
After all, two thousand years was enough time to yield two Chakra Fruits.
And Isshiki Otsutsuki happened to have two Ten-Tails.
Even if the Chakra Fruits had to be handed over to the higher-ups of the main family, and he could only receive some Chakra pills, it would have been enough for Isshiki Otsutsuki to complete an evolution.
Unfortunately, there were no "what ifs." A single misstep could lead to losing everything, which was the price Isshiki Otsutsuki had paid for these two thousand years.
After quickly reviewing Isshiki Otsutsuki's experiences over the past two thousand years, Izayoi's eyelids twitched slightly, feeling a bit tired.
But that was all.
Even after absorbing the Chakra of the Ten-Tails, the combined Chakra of everyone in the Shinobi World now was still less than his. The future Izayoi could see was still only five minutes ahead.
However, when observing the past, even going back a thousand years from today only caused slight fatigue.
Even if he doubled the effort, the fatigue would only double.
The difference between what had already happened and what had yet to happen was that significant.
Time returned to before Isshiki Otsutsuki and Kaguya Otsutsuki arrived on Earth, and a look of realization flashed in Izayoi's eyes.
He finally understood how the Otsutsuki clan found and traveled to planets in the universe.
It turned out they used the Byakugan and other ocular abilities to search for planets that emitted light, in contrast to the dimness of other dead stars in the vast darkness of space. Then, they used space-time abilities to traverse extremely long distances.
They didn't fly there; instead, they teleported first and then flew slowly.
Thus, Izayoi increased his Eye Power consumption, observing Isshiki Otsutsuki's more distant past.
This time, Izayoi finally saw the main family of the Otsutsuki Clan. He gained a preliminary understanding of this long-lived race capable of traversing the universe with their physical bodies, possessing extremely long lifespans, and even having the potential to transcend the world.
This is a race similar to the Saiyans in the Dragon Ball world!
Saiyans specifically sought out suitable planets to conquer and then sold them, while the Otsutsuki Clan specifically sought out suitable planets to plant God Trees.
Saiyans could evolve, and the Otsutsuki Clan could also evolve. However, unlike the Saiyans' transformations, the Otsutsuki Clan evolved by consuming Chakra Fruits or elixirs, continuously evolving their bodies and deriving various abilities.
"What a race where Super Kage are as common as dogs and Six Paths level beings walk everywhere!"
Through Isshiki Otsutsuki's past, witnessing firsthand the scene of the planet where the Otsutsuki Clan resided, and seeing pure-blooded Otsutsuki everywhere capable of flight and even tearing through space, Izayoi couldn't help but click his tongue slightly.
On this planet, flying ninjas were extremely rare. Even someone like Ōnoki wasn't truly flying. A powerful figure like the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju, needed to use the Wood Dragon Technique to fly briefly.
Flight was the privilege of Six Paths level powerhouses.
No, it was standard equipment for those whose realms had been sublimated and who had stepped into other dimensions.
Because Sasuke Uchiha, who became a Six Paths level powerhouse in the original story, did not have the ability to fly.
Only Uzumaki Naruto, with horns on his head in Sage of Six Paths Mode, had the ability to fly.
On the planet where the Otsutsuki Clan resided, flight and space-time abilities were their modes of travel.
The children who couldn't fly or use space-time abilities had horns on their heads and incredibly powerful chakra, completely on a different level from the ninjas on Earth.
The ninjas on Earth were lucky if they awakened a Kekkei Genkai at most.
As for the children on that planet, they could naturally perform Hand Seal-less jutsu, and what they awakened was either an exclusive eye technique of the Byakugan, or they inherited divine techniques or other abilities from their parents.
Possessing the power of other dimensions before reaching adulthood was utterly outrageous.
However, it was only such an outrageous race that would search the universe for planets with powerful life energy, use the God Tree to drain the planet's energy to bear Chakra Fruits, and evolve their own life level in an alternative way by devouring the planet's life.
Izayoi continued to watch Isshiki Otsutsuki's past.
Those scenes flashed by as if rewound at ten thousand times the speed. Even with the dynamic vision of Izayoi's Rinne Sharingan, the rapidly flashing scenes still appeared very slow.
Suddenly, Izayoi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he stopped outputting Eye Power.
Because he saw a scene.
It was a scene where Isshiki Otsutsuki received a tube of green liquid from someone, his expression incredibly excited.
And this thing, their term for it was... Treasure!
The treasure of the Otsutsuki Clan, could it be...
Izayoi finally deactivated Ame-no-Tokotachi. After doing some simple eye exercises for his twitching eyes, he began the next step.
He raised his hand and pressed it onto the pure black box, and the place he touched slightly caved in.
After a moment, a blue-white energy aura resembling chakra surged out of the black box, covering Izayoi's forearm.
Upon closer inspection, this was clearly a soul.
Although the Otsutsuki Clan used Karma for reincarnation and possession, this long-lived race also had souls.
This could be inferred from the fact that Shibai Otsutsuki's soul was suspected to have transcended this world.
Since there were souls, it meant soul searching was possible.
Izayoi did not soul search Isshiki Otsutsuki immediately, as he simply didn't want to receive too much junk information.
Watching the past with Ame-no-Tokotachi was sometimes more convenient than the soul-searching ability of the Human Path, and it was immersive.
However, some information could not be obtained by Ame-no-Tokotachi.
For example, Chakra Alchemy, that tube of liquid, and the usage of Karma – these answers had to be obtained from Isshiki Otsutsuki's memories.
Soul searching a long-lived being who had lived for thousands of years, and finding information as tiny as a grain of sand within a vast sea of memories, was undoubtedly like searching for a needle in a haystack.
But that was for ordinary Rinnegan users.
Izayoi's forehead, where the Rinne Sharingan had opened, suddenly emitted a dazzling crimson light.
The next second, Isshiki Otsutsuki inside the box, or more accurately, Isshiki Otsutsuki who was residing within Jigen and whose body was pierced by needle-like Black Rods, suddenly looked dazed.
Then, the information Izayoi wanted instantly flooded his mind. He had clearly fallen victim to Genjutsu.
Ordinary Genjutsu was naturally ineffective against pure-blooded Otsutsuki, but Genjutsu at the Kekkei Mōra level was different.
Under Izayoi's hypnotic Genjutsu, Isshiki automatically recalled the information and was mercilessly read by Izayoi.
Soon, Izayoi obtained the information he wanted.
"So that's the secret to using Karma... It's an incredible ability, no wonder the Ten-Tails was played around like that." A hint of realization flashed in Izayoi's eyes, and then he couldn't help but chuckle.
The Karma ability was a unique ability of pure-blooded Otsutsuki.
Members of the Otsutsuki Clan could use Karma to replicate themselves, datafy themselves, and then implant these data into others.
Those who couldn't accommodate this data would have their bodies rapidly collapse and explode.
As for those who could accommodate the data, they would gain the powerful abilities that came with the data, and their bodies would slowly be modified by the data.
When the data owner willed it, their soul would instantly transfer from another body into this body. Then, the original owner of the body, their soul would be purged like a virus, or absorbed and digested. Along with their original appearance and physical characteristics, it would be like breaking open an outer shell, revealing the true appearance of the data owner hidden within.
This was the terrifying aspect of Karma.
Once Karma is branded and the body is completely modified by data, life and death are at the whim of the data's owner.
It is precisely this ability that allowed the pure-blooded Otsutsuki Clan to deceive the Ten-Tails time and time again without injury or loss, turning it into the God Tree to absorb planetary energy.
And now, Izayoi has also mastered the usage of Karma.
Furthermore, Izayoi has also mastered the longed-for... Chakra Alchemy.
It turns out that it is also related to Karma!
To be precise, it requires the power of Karma.
Just as Karma's ability allows one to digitize themselves.
Everyone's data is different; strong individuals have a lot of data, which can be measured in units of G.
While the data of the weak is measured in units of M.
Consuming Chakra pills to elevate one's life tier is equivalent to upgrading one's own data.
These data upgrades bring new functions to the 'software,' which is essentially an update.
However, to absorb or transplant new data, the power of the Rinnegan is required.
To be precise, it's the absorption ability similar to the Preta Path.
This is why Momoshiki Otsutsuki could absorb Chakra using the Rinnegan and refine it into Chakra pills without obtaining a Chakra Fruit.
And now, Izayoi has also mastered such power.
Thinking of this, Izayoi's mood instantly became incredibly joyful.
He finally had a way to extend his lifespan!
His dream, or rather his goal, was now halfway to being realized!
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